Who was the greatest wartime leader?

[WI_DEM]

[dbt]

Other:

Crazy Horse.

:evilgrin:
dbt

[MattG]

2. FDR BEEYOTCHES

He's my favorite president ever!!!

[tom_paine]

1. People who voted "other" need to post their selection, please!

Inquiring minds want to know...

[Beacho]

3. Torn between Lincoln and FDR

but had to break it on FDRs side

[WI_DEM]

4. I'd say Winston

Remember Britian went up against Germany more than two years before we got in and held her own. Churchill was a big reason why.

[AP]

15. America's future was not in jeopardy in WWI. It was during WW2 & Civil War

[Goldmund]

5. MLK

[necso]

6. Pericles.

Pericles managed to convince the Athenian people (a rather fractious and mercurial lot, as history illustrates) to adopt and adhere to a wise and effective (as it could be) war plan against the Spartans, although this plan was difficult, costly and painful -- and required great discipline, vision and patience. (The war was, more or less, inevitable.) In the event, Pericles was carried off by a lingering illness, and Athens, (eventually) abandoning his plan and his principles, inevitably and somewhat ingloriously came to ruin.

But Pericles is not to be blamed for his illness, and while he lived he was notable for his success in demanding and obtaining the uncommon from the (his) common people, so much so that the Athenians followed his guidance for some time after his death. -- A rare thing, indeed.

[Drewskie]

7. Alfred the Great

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[faithfulcitizen]

8. other: Wes Clark

[wadestock]

9. I don't like the question....

We have enough anger and edge of your seat war paranoia to last a few centuries here....

What's the point of trying to glamorize war?

WAR SUCKS...

The modern world has pretty much come around to the notion that it's unaffordable....

With the possible exception of the United States.

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. I voted for Churchill...

because on the Allied side in WWII, he really was the indispensable man. Without him as Prime Minister, there's a chance that the British would've negotiated a peace at the time of the Dunkirk debacle, which would have had the effect of leaving the Luftwaffe intact (it was the Battle of Britain that blunted Hitler's air weapon, remember); not to mention that the secondary fronts in North Africa and the Balkans wouldn't have been opened, and the entire direction of the war would have altered. Hitler would've been unopposed master of Western Europe. And with his forces intact and not fighting on any other fronts, it's quite possible that the invasion of Russia would've gone rather differently, as well.

[phusion]

11. Gandhi

At least, "war" according to this definition:

war Pronunciation Key (wôr)
n.

2 b. A concerted effort or campaign to combat or put an end to something considered injurious.

:evilgrin:

[toddaa]

12. Scipio Africanus

You remember? The guy who beat Hannibal at Zama. Great leader of men who refused political power after defeating Carthage. What a general should be.

[WillieWoohah]

13. Queen Victoria

just kidding, Churchill of course!

[H2O Man]

14. Crazy Horse

Sitting Bull, and Geronimo

[Lilith Velkor]

16. Sitting Bull

:P

[WLKjr]

17. FDR was the shyeet, Abraham Lincoln was the shyeet

This is a hard poll for me to answer. Abraham lincoln for saving the union, and FDR for not only pulling america out of a depression but also instilling a strong since of duty to america and the commonwealth of it's citizenry. And on top of that, for his brilliant handling of WWII along with the alliance building skills he had.